Regardless of which language you speak, communication is key to great relations.

1. If you want to convince listeners that you have a good message for them, first convince them you're a good person.

2. If you desire a strong commitment from the audience, must engage strong feelings.

3. If you want commitments to last then must show that arguments are logical and based of understood reality.

4. When speaking of guilt or innocence, emphasize the morality of past actions.

5. when speaking of future policy, stress practical advantages of the plan of action

6. When celebrating achievements, emphasize the values that make them right.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. joined NYC Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty and Bronx Community Board #7 District Manager Fernando Tirado to announce a new information and enforcement campaign aimed at keeping Bronx streets free of canine waste.

The photo shows Borough President Diaz holding a “pooper scooper,” which typically cost about $20 each—a contrast to the $250 fine “pooper-trators” will receive for failing to clean up after their pet.

Happy Birthday to you, there are times you smell like a zoo...

By the late 1800s, New York City's promise and potential were constrained only by a mass transit system that was becoming somewhat frayed around the edges. Electric streetcars, horse-drawn omnibuses and steam-powered elevated trains could carry passengers only limited distances. Manhattan Island north of Greenwich Village was the suburbs and anything much farther out than that was country, certainly impractical for a regular commute.

Kaleidoscope Gallery of City Island is proud to announce the Opening Show and Sale of Art curated by Carolyn Stanford. Founder and President of Inside Out Art, Carolyn, devotes her time to supporting and promoting the works of outstanding, self taught, incarcerated non-violent offenders and ex-offenders.

Tomorrow afternoon @ 4:30 PM, Council Member James Vacca will join Deputy Borough President Aurelia Greene, as well as students and faculty from the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts, to cut the ribbon on the school’s recently renovated library and computer lab. Vacca and Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. allocated a combined $340,000 to fund the project, which included new flooring and furniture in the library, upgraded wiring, and new computers for the computer lab.